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Introduction : medicalising borders / Sevasti Trubeta, Christian Promitzer and Paul Weindling -- I. Quarantine Habsburg border quarantines until 1837 : an epidemiological 'iron curtain'? / Sabine Jesner Cholera at the junction of maritime and land routes in nineteenth-century Trieste / Urška Bratož -- Uses of quarantine in the nineteenth century until the Crimean war : examples from south-east Europe / Christian Promitzer -- Weak state-controlled disease prevention in peripheral border regions : Austrian Bukovina and Dalmatia in the late nineteenth century / Carlos Watzka -- II. (Dis)connections - containment -- Lazarettos as border filters : expurgating bodies, commodities and ideas, 1800-1870s / John Chircop -- Sealing borders and containing prisoners : from free movement of migrants to containment in concentration camps / Paul Weindling -- Locating disease : on the coexistence of diverse concepts of territory and the spread of disease / Sarah Green Fear and panic at the borders : outbreak anxieties in the United States from the colonies to Covid-19 / Amy Lauren Fairchild, Constance A. Nathanson and Cullen Conway -- III. Selection -- 'Suspect' screening : the limit of Britain's medicalised borders, 1962-1981 / Roberta Bivins -- A question of hygiene or nationality? Exclusion and non-Jewish labour migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Israel, 2006-2017 / Robin A. Harper and Hani Zubider -- Medicalised borders and racism in the era of humanitarianism / Sevasti Trubeta.